3rd ESA Advanced Course on Radar Polarimetry 2015

Educational materials from the 3rd ESA Advanced Course on Radar Polarimetry 2015 held in Frascati, Italy, on 19-23 January 2015. Download specific blocks here below or access the full theory and practicals from the window left side link.

Welcome and EO missions:

• Course Intro and Organisation, C.Stewart (3 MB)
• Intro to SEOM, Y.L.Desnos ( 3MB)
• S1 mission, Y.L.Desnos (42 MB)
• BIOMASS mission, K.Scipal ( 6MB)
• SAOCOM-CS Mission and Airborne Campaigns, M.Davidson (2 MB)
• ALOS-2 PALSAR-2, M.Shimada (9 MB)
• UAV-SAR, S.Hensley (20 MB)
• Keynote Address, W.M.Boerner (20 MB)

Polarimetric SAR (PolSAR):

• PolSAR Concepts (Basic and Advanced), E.Pottier (105 MB)
• PolSARpro Overview and Practical Basics (26 MB) and datasets (704 MB & 553 MB), E.Pottier & C.Stewart
• PolSARpro and Sentinel-1 Toolbox Practical (133 KB) and datasets (580 MB), C.Stewart & E.Pottier
• PolSAR Surface Parameter Estimation: Intro, Basics and Practical (31 MB) and datasets (487 MB), I.Hajnsek

Polarimetric SAR Tomography (Pol-TomoSAR):

• Pol-TomSAR Intro and Basics, L.Ferro-Famil & S.Tebaldini, (40 MB)
• Pol-TomSAR Advanced Concepts, L.Ferro-Famil & S.Tebaldini (9MB)
• Pol-TomSAR Practical on Forest Characterisation (6 MB) and datasets (30 MB & 5.6 MB), L.Ferro-Famil & S.Tebaldini

PolSAR-Ap: Exploitation of Fully Polarimetric SAR data for Application Demonstration:

• PolSAR-Ap Intro, M.Pardini (3 MB)
• PolSAR-Ap Theory, C.Lopez-Martinez (2 MB)
• PolSAR-Ap Ocean, M.Migliaccio (4 MB)
• PolSAR-Ap Cryosphere, M.Pardini (4 MB)
• PolSAR-Ap Urban, E.Koeniguer (5 MB)
• PolSAR-Ap Forest, K.Papathanassiou (6 MB)
• PolSAR-Ap Agriculture and Wetlands, C.Lopez-Martinez (6 MB)